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Western research takes aim at medical racism

Western research takes aim at medical racism

Health experts wanting to understand vaccine hesitancy in racialized communities should look beyond simple answers, according to a team of Western researchers. Marginalized groups in Canada continue to grapple with a legacy of medical racism, said Siné …

New chair embraces ‘meeting of minds’

New chair embraces ‘meeting of minds’

Tim Bayne’s research can be described as the flipside of Adrian Owen’s neuroscience coin. And that’s just one reason he’s here. “Adrian (Owen) and his collaborators are using neuroimaging to look at brain activity in (vegetative) patients, and what they’re really...

Davenport: Relation to Relativity

Davenport: Relation to Relativity

Dear Professor Christopher J Smeenk, I greatly enjoyed your short piece in Western News, Empty out the drawer: Following Einstein’s path to General Relativity, and those of your colleagues, in the section last month which marked the 100th anniversary of the...

Of Space, Time and The Mind

Of Space, Time and The Mind

A century ago this month, Albert Einstein achieved his long-sought theory of gravitation, the General Theory of Relativity, by publically debuting it during presentations to the Prussian Academy in November 1915. A seminal text, this paper led to a scientific...

Dice Capades: Einstein and quantum mechanics

Dice Capades: Einstein and quantum mechanics

Einstein has become such a cultural touchstone that the internet is full of dubiously sourced quotations attributed to him. One of the most famous usually appears as “I refuse to believe that God plays dice with the universe” – or more simply “God doesn’t play dice.”...

Celebrating Einstein

Celebrating Einstein

A popular picture of scientific revolutions, such as Einstein’s overthrow of Newtonian physics, paints them as involving something like a gestalt shift; they involve a sudden reorientation of the perspective through which we see the world. The perspective, through...

Relics of a life: Einstein museum exhibit brings an interactive twist

Relics of a life: Einstein museum exhibit brings an interactive twist

In December 2014, Stathis Psillos, former Rotman Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Science at Western, suggested the idea of Einstein @ Rotman, a series of events culminating with a museum exhibit with manuscripts related to Einstein’s theory of general...

Empty out the drawer: Following Einstein’s path to General Relativity

Empty out the drawer: Following Einstein’s path to General Relativity

This month, we celebrate the centenary of Einstein’s discovery of a new theory of gravity – general relativity. Einstein’s achievement required perseverance and enormous creativity, as he struggled over a rough and winding road for eight years to formulate the theory....

Rotman Institute director building new bridges

Rotman Institute director building new bridges

Once people discover what philosophers are working on, Christopher Smeenk believes they’ll see that these scholars are exploring the fundamental questions of everyday life.

Skelton: Firing may be severe, but not unreasonable

Skelton: Firing may be severe, but not unreasonable

Editor’s note: It hasn’t been a good year for public stupidity. In May, a Hydro One employee was fired for on-air harassment of a television reporter following a professional soccer game. Soon afterward, a TC Transcontinental employee was suspended after heckling a...

The Big Ideas Issue

The Big Ideas Issue

Join members of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy in this special edition of Western News as they offer up their BIG IDEAS on the questions you’ll be facing tomorrow – and beyond. Better we understand science, better we understand ourselves. By Stathis Psillos;...

Big Ideas: Working out ideas on fitness

Big Ideas: Working out ideas on fitness

While there has been a lot of feminist attention paid to the diet industry, and the tyranny of increasingly difficult-to-attain ideals of the feminine body, feminist scholars have done little analysis of fitness – the fitness industry, fitness culture and the...

New chair embraces ‘meeting of minds’

New chair embraces ‘meeting of minds’

Tim Bayne’s research can be described as the flipside of Adrian Owen’s neuroscience coin. And that’s just one reason he’s here. “Adrian (Owen) and his collaborators are using neuroimaging to look at brain activity in (vegetative) patients, and what they’re really...

Davenport: Relation to Relativity

Davenport: Relation to Relativity

Dear Professor Christopher J Smeenk, I greatly enjoyed your short piece in Western News, Empty out the drawer: Following Einstein’s path to General Relativity, and those of your colleagues, in the section last month which marked the 100th anniversary of the...

Of Space, Time and The Mind

Of Space, Time and The Mind

A century ago this month, Albert Einstein achieved his long-sought theory of gravitation, the General Theory of Relativity, by publically debuting it during presentations to the Prussian Academy in November 1915. A seminal text, this paper led to a scientific...

Dice Capades: Einstein and quantum mechanics

Dice Capades: Einstein and quantum mechanics

Einstein has become such a cultural touchstone that the internet is full of dubiously sourced quotations attributed to him. One of the most famous usually appears as “I refuse to believe that God plays dice with the universe” – or more simply “God doesn’t play dice.”...

Celebrating Einstein

Celebrating Einstein

A popular picture of scientific revolutions, such as Einstein’s overthrow of Newtonian physics, paints them as involving something like a gestalt shift; they involve a sudden reorientation of the perspective through which we see the world. The perspective, through...

Relics of a life: Einstein museum exhibit brings an interactive twist

Relics of a life: Einstein museum exhibit brings an interactive twist

In December 2014, Stathis Psillos, former Rotman Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Science at Western, suggested the idea of Einstein @ Rotman, a series of events culminating with a museum exhibit with manuscripts related to Einstein’s theory of general...

Empty out the drawer: Following Einstein’s path to General Relativity

Empty out the drawer: Following Einstein’s path to General Relativity

This month, we celebrate the centenary of Einstein’s discovery of a new theory of gravity – general relativity. Einstein’s achievement required perseverance and enormous creativity, as he struggled over a rough and winding road for eight years to formulate the theory....

Rotman Institute director building new bridges

Rotman Institute director building new bridges

Once people discover what philosophers are working on, Christopher Smeenk believes they’ll see that these scholars are exploring the fundamental questions of everyday life.

Skelton: Firing may be severe, but not unreasonable

Skelton: Firing may be severe, but not unreasonable

Editor’s note: It hasn’t been a good year for public stupidity. In May, a Hydro One employee was fired for on-air harassment of a television reporter following a professional soccer game. Soon afterward, a TC Transcontinental employee was suspended after heckling a...

The Big Ideas Issue

The Big Ideas Issue

Join members of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy in this special edition of Western News as they offer up their BIG IDEAS on the questions you’ll be facing tomorrow – and beyond. Better we understand science, better we understand ourselves. By Stathis Psillos;...

Big Ideas: Working out ideas on fitness

Big Ideas: Working out ideas on fitness

While there has been a lot of feminist attention paid to the diet industry, and the tyranny of increasingly difficult-to-attain ideals of the feminine body, feminist scholars have done little analysis of fitness – the fitness industry, fitness culture and the...